Louis Montoyer

Louis Montoyer (1749, Mariemont, Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium - 5 June 1811, Vienna) was an 18th century Belgian-Austrian architect, principally active in Brussels and Vienna.

Life

He worked in Brussels as an architect from 1778 onwards, where his buildings included the governor's residence, the Köngispalast. In 1795 he finally came to Vienna with Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen, who had already appointed him his court architect in 1780. There he first worked on rebuilding the duke's palace, now known as the Albertina. He also built the Ceremonial Hall at the Hofburg, connecting the Leopoldian part of the building with the old Imperial Palace. Also in Vienna, Montoyer built the Palais Rasumofsky for the former Russian ambassador Andrey Razumovsky.

On 25 September 1805 he was made an honorary citizen of Vienna, and in 1807 he was appointed court architect to Francis II. He was buried in the St. Marx Cemetery, where his memorial can still be seen.

Works

Brussels

*Théâtre de la Monnaie (1725)
*The Vauxhall (1732)
*Théâtre Royal du Parc (1782)
*Royal Castle of Laken (1782-84)
*The Orangery in the Parc de Bruxelles (1782)
*Designs for an extension of Église Saint-Joseph de Waterloo (1789)

Vienna

*Renovation and extension of the Albertina (1801-04)
*Redoute Baden, (1801 , demolished in 1908)
*Hall of Ceremonies at the Hofburg Imperial Palace (1801-02)
*Rebuilding of the Hofburg Chapel (1802)
*Extension of the Churhauses (1806)
*Transformation of the Malteserkirche (1806-1808)
*Palais Rasumofsky, 1806-1807

External links

*De icon [http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.m/m803821.htm Louis Montoyer] on aeiou
*de icon [http://www.bezirksmuseum.at/landstrasse/page.asp/2784.htm Louis Montoyer] on the Bezirksmuseum Landstraße site